20 Heller Dimbach

Dimbach is a small village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly minor municipalities, it issued Heller Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria following the First World War. These hyper-local issues were produced in tiny quantities, often on whatever paper stock was available to the local authority, with designs executed by hand or on simple office equipment. Dimbach's 20 Heller note is among the more obscure entries in the broader Austrian Notgeld corpus — no major auction records, no known printer attribution.

The shortage that prompted it was real and immediate: coin hoarding after 1914 left everyday transactions nearly impossible at the village level.